Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Scheherazade" draws inspiration from "Arabian Nights," also known as "One Thousand and One Nights," which ...
To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...
Watch as Elim Chan conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” as part of her NY Phil debut on March 7, 2024, featuring NY Phil Concertmaster Frank Huang. The work was also on the program when Chan ...
For his suite “Scheherazade,” Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was inspired by the collected tales of The Arabian Nights (“One Thousand and One Nights”). While he originally included titles to ...
A staple of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Hollywood Bowl repertory for many decades, Rimsky-Korsakov’s familiar “Scheherazade” has often seemed a tired exercise in orchestral display and conductorial ...
Saturday 10 September 2005 9:00-12:00 (Radio 3) Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases. In Building a Library, Anthony Burton recommends a version of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade ...
The Sultan Schahriar, convinced that all women are unfaithful, vowed to kill each of his wives after the first night of marriage. But one of those wives — the Sultana Scheherazade — kept herself alive ...